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development by Niccoli

...Florentine scribe Niccolò Niccoli (d. 1437) combined the rhythm and fluidity of the familiar black-letter current hand with the narrow, inclined strokes of the
lettera antica in his
antica corsiva, which became the model for italic printing types. As in modern italic fonts, the form of
a is distinctive, and
f, g, k, and a long thin
s are more or less...

relation to cancellaresca corsiva

in calligraphy, script that in the 16th century became the vehicle of the New Learning throughout Christendom. It developed during the preceding century out of the
antica corsiva, which had been perfected by the scribes of the papal chancery. As written by the calligrapher and printer Ludovico degli Arrighi of Vicenza in the early decades of the 16th...